HIGH SCHOOL WRESTLING: Greencastle-Antrim's Carbaugh still in hunt for PIAA berth

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Feb 23, 2013 at 8:15 AM

Greencastle-Antrim's Cody Carbaugh knows the feeling all too well.Except this year, he won his first match at the South Central AAA Regional Wrestling Championships at Hersheypark Arena.

Lee Goodwin

HERSHEY — Greencastle-Antrim's Cody Carbaugh knows the feeling all too well.Except this year, he won his first match at the South Central AAA Regional Wrestling Championships at Hersheypark Arena.The senior 113-pounder, competing in his third regional tournament, earned a 12-0 major decision in his first-round match against New Oxford's Lake Laughman, sending him to the quarterfinal round where he met his match in Central Dauphin's Austin Camacci.Camacci dominated Carbaugh just as Carbaugh dominated Laughman, working for an 8-2 decision to bump Carbaugh into the consolation bracket. From there, Carbaugh dispatched James Buchanan's Hunter Faith in a closely-contested match, 6-5 to advance to the third round of the consolation bracket.Carbaugh's third-round consy opponent, junior Daniel Grant of Twin Valley, is 33-2. The Section IV champion beat Red Land's Leo DeJesus in the first round, 12-1 and lost to Spring Grove's Derek Carlisle, 11-4 in the quarterfinals. Grant beat Hempfield's Aidyn Miller in a second-round consolation bout by fall in 2:36.G-A's sophomore 106-pounder Wyatt Binkley, who entered yesterday's regional event as a Section I champion, had a tougher go of it. Binkley lost 6-1 to Palmyra's Evan Bogdan in the first round and was eliminated with a 12-10 loss to Dover's Brandon Rodriguez, who lost to Brett Kulp of Exeter in the first round, 5-4.Binkley nearly pulled off a win against Bogdan after slipping out from underneath and coming close to a headlock hold. Bogdan got out of the move and scored a takedown to account for the final score."(Wyatt) blocked off pretty well at the beginning," said G-A head coach Fred Yelton. "We were able to take him down in the New Oxford Tournament. Wyatt got a little frustrated. We have to do a better job of creating openings."Bogdan decisioned Binkley in the consolation finals at the New Oxford Tournament, 4-2 in January.It's an interesting dilemma for Carbaugh, who had to battle back through the loser's bracket last year after losing in the first round and made it all the way to the consolation finals before coming up one win short of a PIAA berth. If he can make it past Grant, he could possibly wrestle Derek Wilson of South Western in a rematch of their New Oxford Tournament semi-final match, won by Carbaugh, 14-4. That's because Wilson takes on favored Tanner Shoap of Chambersburg, who won 7-0 and 13-2 in his two matches Friday.Camacci will face Carlisle in the other championship semifinal match at 113 pounds.In Carbaugh's first match, the outcome was really never in question. The two wrestlers tied up for most of the first period and Laughman tried to reach for a leg to get leverage for a takedown but Carbaugh pushed into Laughman to force a restart. After the restart, Carbaugh parlayed a single leg into a dump for a takedown and a 2-0 lead after the first period.From there, it was all Carbaugh. In the second period, Carbaugh rolled out of a tilt hold for a reversal and followed up with a nice reach over for a far leg cradle for three back points and a 5-0 lead. Carbaugh got another reversal in the third period and locked a near leg cradle for three more nearfall points to close the scoring."I think I wrestled pretty well. I need to do better to keep up with my goal," Carbaugh said after his major decision. "I need to be more offensive. I did counters, but when you go up against the best, you have to be more offensive."Binkley nearly pulled off the win against Rodriguez later in the evening, scoring on a late takedown to make it 11-10 before Rodriguez scored on an escape. Binkley was unable to get another takedown before time expired.A five-point move in the first period was all Camacci needed to upend Carbaugh in the quarterfinals. It was 8-0 before Carbaugh managed to score on a reversal for his only points of the match.

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